LEADER 04798nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910780058203321 005 20210916030225.0 010 $a1-4008-0695-X 010 $a9786612752384 010 $a1-282-75238-3 010 $a1-4008-2189-4 010 $a1-4008-1326-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821891 035 $a(CKB)111056486500356 035 $a(EBL)617289 035 $a(OCoLC)705527006 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439949 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12154805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439949 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10470767 035 $a(PQKB)10883317 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207426 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207426 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254441 035 $a(PQKB)10982335 035 $a(OCoLC)51453405 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36007 035 $a(DE-B1597)446102 035 $a(OCoLC)979628708 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617289 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031942 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617289 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486500356 100 $a19950922d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy own private Germany$b[electronic resource] $eDaniel Paul Schreber's secret history of modernity /$fEric L. Santner 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-02627-0 311 0 $a0-691-02628-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-192) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tOne. Freud, Schreber, and the Passions of Psychoanalysis --$tTwo. The Father Who Knew Too Much --$tThree. Schreber's Jewish Question --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews. 606 $aNational socialism$xPsychological aspects 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGermany 606 $aModernism (Art)$zGermany 607 $aGermany$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aGermany$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aNational socialism$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aModernism (Art) 676 $a616.89/7/0092 700 $aSantner$b Eric L.$f1955-$0967195 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780058203321 996 $aMy own private Germany$93674536 997 $aUNINA